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“We Watch the News and We’re Crying”

March 2022

International Women’s Day

The Staff of The New Yorker

 

New York has seen near-daily rallies and protests, with Ukrainians, Ukrainian Americans, and their supporters gathering to chant, sing, grieve, and rage against an unjust war. 

The New Yorker -3/8/22

 

 

 

March 3, 2022

 

Two different views.

 

First: Russia made a huge mistake when they tried to pull Cuba, an independent state, into their sphere of influence. Dam near got US into full out war possibly using nuclear weapons. 
Fast forward to today. The United States/NATO made the same mistake in trying to pull Ukraine into our sphere of influence.
Cuba was in our backyard and the Ukraine is in Russia’s backyard. Both the US then and Russia’s plan now is to *change the governments in Cuba and Ukraine to protect their sphere of influence.

 LL

US Foreign Policy Has Always Been Aggressive
The United States is not now—and has never been—in any position to lecture other countries about the moral evils of aggressive foreign policy.
J. Solis-Mullen
The Mises Institute 
2/28/22

Biden's Cuban Missile Crisis
Joe Biden's perverse legacy, if that term even applies anymore, may well be determined in the coming weeks by his handling of events in Ukraine.
Jeff Deist - 2/24/22

When the Bush administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea.
Ron Paul

(If) Russia's supply is completely removed from the market, the price of oil could double to around $200. That would likely also double the price of gasoline and be a major drag on the U.S. economy.
Breitbart Business Digest 

Second: The worst casualties of war will be the Ukraine civilians. Second Russian civilians. Third United States civilians. However, for US the harm will only be financial..... so far !
We are in the position that what ever aggressive policy we follow will only make the problem worse for civilians with possible very long term results!

 

25 citizens a day are killed by Illegal aliens, 12 murders and 13 traffic accidents.

ABC News - Jan. 10, 2008

I wish the media could shed a few tears for our own citizens.

If you have zero compassion for US at least report the news without all the poor *Mexican stories.

Some estimates put the large population increases in the US  are 70 to 75% due to illegal aliens and legal immigration.

A environmental disaster in

the making. At least be concerned for the environment!?

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*If you have lived in California you probably know Poor Mexican Stories can be about any individuals or groups. It refers to a style of guilt journalism.

 

*this is not to infer that the moral and ethical situation is the same as the Cuban Missel Crisis and the invasion of Ukraine. But, the 

politics are the same and  the results were easily predictable !

 

 

 

‘What makes America a Wonder’ - NYT’s

 

February 2022 Celebrating 

Washington  Lincoln  Douglas 
         Woodson  King
                    et al
and Rev. Jessie Jackson 


Opinion Today: ‘What makes America a wonder’
Eleanor Barkhorn
Editor at Large, NYT’s

The answer is pretty simple.
Rev. Jessie Jackson said it as good and as simple as it can be said.

Jesse Jackson's message is too advanced for most
by Mike Royko
The Baltimore Sun

(and still is today)

“The genius of America is that out of the many we became one. Providence has enabled our paths to intersect. His fore parents came to America on immigrant ships.   My fore parents came to Amellrica on slave ships. But, whatever the original ships, we're in the same boat tonight.
Rev. Jessie Jackson 
July 20, 1988
(Rev. Jackson on what we are.)

"When we are on the offensive arguing about getting killers out of jail, there is no moral authority in that."
(Rev. Jackson on why we are losing what we are.)

 

“When a black man kills a white man it is prison time. When a white man kills a black man it is revolution time, but when a black man kills another black man it is Miller Time.”Rev. Jessie Jackson during a sermon given at Shalom Church.
(Rev. Jackson on the condition of the condition we are in.)

 

 

 

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*or  a JFK, or Sen. Tom Harkin Democrat 

Hail To The Redskins

Jan. 15,   2022
Washington Times
Letters to the Editor 

I have heard rumors that the NFL team in Washington DC are contemplating changing 
their name. 
Based on my personal research 
I found a name that seems a perfect fit for the team. And, as
amazing as it seems I found an old fight song that is a perfect
match. Also rumored to be song
with emotion, feelings and passion by by the fans. A rare
experience I have been told by 
some old timers.
There are some neat things about the new name and fight
song. Most important of all they
honor the tribes of the First Nations. Those who fought and died to maintain their way of life and culture like Lozen, an Apache, or Nde, woman who resisted European domination. Known for her bravery, military prowess and dedication to her people’s safety.
Also, a strong nod to members of the First Nations who played 
a role in the early history of the team. The coaches and the players.  And revived the spirit of Wing Foot and Indian Football of the early 20th Century.

In 1932, the Boston Braves, coached by the Native American Lone Star Dietz, were nicknamed 'the Redskins'in honour of their charismatic and successful coach according to some historical notes.

“Indian football” in the National Football League.
Indian football was a wide open brand of early twentieth century football, usually played by Native American teams.

The new name should be:
The WASHINGTON REDSKINS

Last, if you believe that the iconic symbol of a Native American of the First Nations on the helmet or ‘Hail to the Redskins’ is racism you should
rethink your thinking.
You might want to consider something that is racism. The ‘Jim Crow’ policy of the National Football League.
That is rewards and benefits 
based on race or skin color.

Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Victory!
Braves on the Warpath!
Fight for old D.C.!
Run or pass and score—We want a lot more!
Beat 'em, Swamp 'em,
Touchdown! -- Let the points soar!
Fight on, fight on 'Til you have won
Sons of Wash-ing-ton. Rah!, Rah!, Rah!
Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Victory!
Braves on the Warpath!
Fight for old D.C.!

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place in space and time where
"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."
Will Rogers

ref. j. gordon hylton, nfl, chuck 
knoll, espn, hattiesburg 
american, lewis, cbs, fox, abc
etc., etc.

Reparations YES

ACLU
June 12, 2021


H.R. 40 and Reparations: We will never achieve racial justice in America if this country does not examine the impact of slavery and its legacy – H.R. 40, a bill for the study of reparations, would do exactly that.
ACLU  - June 11, 2021

A Good Place to Start


Biden lays out plan for racial wealth equity in Tulsa - The Hill June 1, 2021
(The President should be the first to contribute about a million dollars which would be a good start)

We should know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. But it has been little covered in American history textbooks.
Erick-Woods Erickson
June 2, 2021

 

Copy

May 31, 2021
Tulsa 1921
CBS Special Report

I’m not a well educated citizen.
However, I have been well aware of Tulsa 1921  and the Rosewood Florida 1923 incidents.
CBS saying current citizens aren't  aware of Tulsa & Rosewood
is a strong indictment of a failed media and public education system.


Just a educated guess as to another reason why what was known but not to the younger generation. CBS left out a few critical pieces of historical information regarding their own
political party.

1. May 03, 2018 · The Rosewood Massacre was an attack on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1923.
Though it was originally settled in 1845 by both Black and white people, black codes and Jim Crow laws in the years after the Civil War fostered segregation in Rosewood (and much of the Democrat Party/KKK South).

2. Tulsa Oklahoma race riot massacre of 1921, a Democrat and KKK stronghold.
History
The Tulsa County Democratic Party issued a statement late last week acknowledging what it said was its “racist past.” “On this, the 100th Year Centennial Commemoration of the 1921 Race Riots.
Tulsa World - May 30, 2021

Just my opinion but the Democrat Party should ‘pay reparations’ to the known decedents of the Tulsa Incident
and the Rosewood Incident.

Last note: For CBS to leave out the main cause of the Tulsa and Rosewood Incidents which was the Democrat Party and the Klan.
My opinion this is a serious lack of common decency and the news media lacking any form of a moral or ethical compass.


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        po boy walking
    “looking for a Lincoln   
           Republican".              

liberal political  philosophy      
loke gladstone mill jefferson 
franklin pain hoover lincoln
           montaigne
                & co
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Sent from  some
place in space and time where,
“Their ancestors owned my ancestors and now we meet together.”
Jester Hairston
Johnny Carson-Oct. 15, 1987

Who is Defending Public Education

Mar. 30, 2021
Mississippi Association of Education
Erica Jones President

Madam President,

I realize the interviewer did not ask you about the quality of education and educators. That is no reflection on you.
Which brings me to my question. Does the MAE agree or disagree with the concerns of the Parents Defending Education as stated below !?
I would appreciate your views on these very important issues.

This month, an ideological activist group sued to try to force New York City schools to teach a politicized, destructive “anti-racist” curriculum and to shut down the City’s gifted and talented programs — a lifeline for low-income families — for good.
Claims that math and science are racist, while students fall further behind in STEM skills but teachers and administrators don’t face any consequences.
Lessons teaching our kids that America is evil, that our country’s history is a story of oppression and exploitation, and that our Founding Fathers, our Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution should be despised, as progressive political messaging replaces reading, writing, and actual history.
The destruction of gifted and talented programs — just like what’s happening now in New York City! — that accept students based on merit and hard work, and provide elite educational opportunities for free to working class, low-income, and/or immigrant families who can’t afford private school … like the ones that politicians, progressive elites, and others send their kids to.
Nicole Neily
Parents Defending Education
2021

Thanking you in advance for your concern regarding the
quality of public education>

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place in space and time where,
‘Most of us get our news from television. And that’s a very sad situation. They need more than that.’
Walter Cronkite - 1982

FYI: Supporter or Member, Fraser Institute • Hillsdale College • Hoover Institute -
Stanford University • Cato Institute •. Fordham Institute • Heritage Foundation
•. Judicial Watch

Tried to Watch the NFL

New Year’s day - 2021
National Football League Political Action Committees
NFL Commissioner

Mr. Commissioner,

When what used to be the big game of the year for me was the Cowboys vs the Indians not the Super Bowl.

I haven’t watched the NFL for at least two to three years.
However, my moral and ethical 
compass must have not been working well for I turned on the TV to watch the big game.
I immediately noticed the
classic symbol of the Native Americans was gone from the side of the Washington team’s helmet. It had been replaced with a big ugly red W.
And, It dawned on me why. The UnSports and the Burning Looting Malefactors you support could not stand the idea that one team actually honored the Native Americans.
Hail to the Redskins !
If there is a pandemic of racism it’s in the UnSports like the NFL, NBA etc.  PACS masquerading 
as sports clubs.
You use the pretense of fighting 
the fake pandemic of racism to actually practice racism, segregation and Jim Crow laws and policy.

Of course this just my opinion, but the facts seem clearly to support that opinion.

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place in space and time where,
‘You can’t fight racism with racism.’
The movie: Panther
1960’s something

ps: The Old Guard used to supply the Flag Team for the Skins home games. As a former member of The Old Guard 3rd Inf. I will do what I can to change that tradition if it still exists. The U S Military should have no association with the Un Sports or any organizations that actually practice race based or other Jim Crow policy.


cc: cbs sports
      scams
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House Divided

Nov. 9, 2030
New York Times
On Politics 


A House Divided
by Lisa Lerer 


Excepts;
While Mr. Biden won the most votes in history, Mr. Trump won the second-most votes.
This election was not the national renunciation of Trumpism that progressives dreamed it would be. Nor was the outcome a clear sign that voters believed “far-left” protests had plunged America into lawlessness and decline, as conservatives had argued.
Instead, we remain a house divided. Often, even inside the same house.

If all the opinion articles were as good as this one the NYT’s would not be considered the partisan rag that it is. The world’s great newspaper that advocates for every extremely anti-liberal idea that the Breathing Living Malefactors brings forth,  the NYT’s would not be what it is today. The main destructor of natural rights and liberal philosophy, especially liberal political philosophy !
In keeping with the idea of diversity and inclusion, some cases the malefactors are the NYT’s itself.

In contrast to the usual partisan 
drivel that originates in the NYT’s, a House Dived by Lisa Lerer is better than just another partisan opinion. Just my opinion, but it is more fact than opinion. Job well done.
Also, just my opinion the NYT’s is part of the extremely authoritarian conservatives, extremely anti-liberal, mean spirited, intolerant Authoritarian 
Conservative Democrats and Progressives.

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place in space and time where,
“I am not a Republican but I probably should be on the Democrat Party Joseph Stalin
revenge, retribution and blacklist. And, since we now have our own Uncle Joe it all works out.”

REPARATIONS for SLAVERY Yes !?

 

Letters to the editor
New York Post - Mar. 11, 2019

"Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren said they both support reparations for African-Americans affected by slavery."
New York Post 
By Lia Eustachewich
Feb. 22, 2019

 

VP Joe Biden wants provisions for Native Americans included in any cash payment form of reparations to African Americans

Washington Examiner- June 11, 2020

 

VP Joe Biden wants provisions for Native Americans included in any cash payment form of reparations to African Americans

Washington Examiner- June 11, 2020

Southern Democrats consisting of whites in the South who believed in Jeffersonian democracy. In the 1850s they defended slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern Free Soil opposition.
The Democrat Party should pay reparations to those harmed by the Institution of Slavery.

Democrat President Jackson Administration ignored Su. Ct. Decisions and confiscated
Native American lands and property. That, led to a Trail of Tears and Death.  

Scholars almost unanimously consider Andrew Johnson one of the worst presidents. He is also, arguably, the most racist. 

The Democrat Party should pay reparations to all Native Americans harmed by their removal to reservations.

The Democrat Administration in California and the Democrat Administration of FDR Washington DC. put Japanese, citizens of the United States in concentration camps without legal cause or justification confiscating property, personal and real.
The Democrat Party should pay the US Government for all
monies already paid to those harmed by unlawful detention 
of citizens of Japanese decent.

The 3rd version of the Klan & Democrat Party, especially in the Old South was responsible for beatings, rapes, shootings,
hangings and churches that were  bombed. 
The Southern Manifesto to ignore the Su. Court (again) and uphold The Institution  of Segregation of the Democrat Party. 
The Democrat Party should pay reparations to all those harmed by their actions to 
maintain segregation, to include non-minorities who 
also we're threatened or harmed by their actions.

The Democrat Party policy of giving aid and comfort to illegal  aliens is actionable. 25 citizens a day are killed by Illegal aliens, 12 murders and 13 traffic accidents. ABC News - Jan. 10, 2008. 
The Democrat Party should pay reparations to all those who have been harmed by the political and public policy that aids the death of all citizens of the United States because of or related to said policy. 

The Hart-Cellar Immigration Act of 1965 turned the policy of American Immigration upside down championed by Senator Ted Kennedy (D) and signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson (D).
The Democrat Party should pay reparations for any harm directly related to this change in policy as it was forceable as to the harm that would result because of the policy changes.

 

  "The Negro slave-holders, like the white ones, fought to keep their chattels in the Civil War." Woodson also notes that some black men, including those in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War, "fought to perpetuate slavery."

 

Native Americans owned and traded in slaves. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society website, from the late 18th century on, Native Americans in the South, like whites, owned slaves. 

“Indian Territory” (now the state of Oklahoma) in the 1830s, they took their slaves with them, so that “[b]y the time the Civil War broke out more than eight thousand blacks were enslaved in Indian Territory.” 

 

Today, an estimated 529,000 to 869,000 black men, women and children are still slaves. They are bought, owned, sold, and traded by Arab and Muslim in five African countries. 

 

The census of 1830 lists 3,775 free Negroes who owned a total of 12,760 slaves. Many black slaves were allowed to hold jobs, own businesses, and own real estate. 6/29/2020

 

Those Black slave traders and slave owners and Native American slave traders and slave owners and Muslim slave traders and slave owners would not be eligible to receive reparations from the Democrat Party.

 

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"The cost of freedom is always buried in the ground. The loss of freedom is always walking around."

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Fredrick Douglas

 

NPR Staff

July 6,  2020

Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth Of July' Speech
The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid calls for systemic reform. In this film, five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
NPR - July 4, 2020

Frederick Douglass statue torn down in city where he gave speech about the Fourth of July and slavery prior to Civil War.
July 6, 2020

Vandal is a person(s) who out of malice or  ‘ignorance’ destroys or spoils any public or private property.

Lesson Over !?

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"looking for a Lincoln    
     Republican"

Sent from my iPhone some 
place in space and time where,
“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”
Carter G. Woodson 

Liberalism to Intolerance

Racism Bigotry Segregation 

     Intolerance History 

  Liberalism Authoritarian 

              Education 

        Prejudice Bigotry 

                  Media

There is racism, bigotry, segregation and intolerance.

However, it may not be who you think it is. It’s all in the headlines, quotes and comments if you read carefully!       Page 3

 

U.S. Department of Education. ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.  - ed.govwww2.ed.gov/about/overview/mission/m

 

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury. 

 

we don’t need no mind control; teacher leave those kids alone; all in all it’s just another brick in the wall

Pink Floyd - 1979

 

“White’s had trained Blacks to pick cotton; now the failing schools were not training Blacks to do anything. We are the only ones holding ourselves back.”

James Meredith - 1960’s

Author: A Mission from God

 

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March 12, 2011

 The Muslim Student Union at UC Irvine disrupted a speech by the Israeli ambassador as members of the audience and then stood up, one by one, and shouted the ambassador down more than a dozen times.

 "We did worse things when I was there," quipped Daniel Mayfield, a defense attorney for some of the activists and a UCI alumnus. Mr. Mayfield please tell us what you did that was worse than violating the free speech and free assembly rights of others as a student of the law. Possibly you are a good example of what is wrong with our legal system. Individuals without moral or ethical standards that would be considered a minimum requirement for your profession!

Published by DP, LA Times 

 

Freedom of Thought ?

Colleges across the country have increasingly become more resistant to freedom of thought, so it’s no surprise a recent survey found that one in every three students says it’s OK to use violence to shut down so-called hate speech. 

According to a study carried out by the McLaughlin & Associates and sponsored by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.

 

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